9 Amazing Things That Happen When You Stop Wearing a Bra
As a woman, I have been taught all my life
that wearing a bra is the
“proper” thing to do. Wearing a bra under your clothing keeps you looking
attractive, put-together, and just all around more appropriate. This pro-bra
message has been preached to women worldwide for centuries. With this
antiqued expectation in mind, it shouldn’t surprise anyone that this symbol
of femininity is now a normal, daily part of most women’s routines. But
you may be surprised to hear that there are some unexpected benefits to ditching your brassiere every once
and a while – or for good! Here are nine ways your health, your life, and your
breasts can improve by saying adieu to your trusty old bra.
1. Improve Your Breast Shape
Contrary to what we might believe, not
wearing a bra doesn’t cause your breasts to sag. In fact, a long-running French
study has proven that bras most likely have the opposite effect, causing
breasts to lose their shape over time. According to the study, the
“support” of bras weakens the muscles in the chest, making the breasts droop.
To keep your breasts rounder and perkier,
it’s actually best to let them do their own thing! Your bra is just keeping you
back from even more beautiful breasts, truth be told.
2. Get a Better Night’s Sleep
We’ve known for some time that sleeping with
your bra on isn’t something scientists approve of. Rumors of this habit causing
breast cancer have spread from this notion, but this severe consequence
is highly unlikely and has never been proven true. However, it has been
proven that wearing a bra to bed is more likely to cause discomfort and disturb
your sleep cycle!
Furthermore, even if you don’t wear a
bra at night, your undergarment might still be impacting your circadian
rhythms, as demonstrated by
this study, and keeping you from getting a full night’s sleep.
Sleep or a cute, lacy bra? Um, sleep, please.
Sleep definitely wins.
3. Boost Your Circulation
The study mentioned above
briefly covers the effects of clothing (especially tighter clothing) on bodily
circulation. We’ll save you the skimming -frequently wearing tight clothing,
especially bras, is not so good for your circulation.
All that tightness and squeezing around your
chest can slow your circulation by compressing your major blood vessels. This
has actually been proven to create cardiovascular issues down the road, which
your favorite push-up is just not worth.
4. Improve You Breast Health
The same French study that proved going
bra-less improves perkiness has also proven that, on the whole, bras are not
fatally bad for your health. Basically, they’re not going to cause breast
cancer on all their own; there are many genetic and environmental factors at
play when it comes to breast cancer.
However, not wearing a bra WILL improve your
breast health in other ways! Besides improving blood flow, sweat and dirt
are no longer trapped against the skin by your tight bra. This makes
infections, rashes, and acne less likely on your breasts.
This is especially true is you wear bras that
don’t fit quite right. Bras that don’t have the right fit, or have painful underwire, are going
to cause shortness of breath, chest pains, and all sorts of discomfort. You
COULD skip the step of finding an appropriately fitting bra and
just not wear one at all, just saying.
5. Save Some Money
Let’s face it, bras are expensive! Especially
nice, comfortable, stylish ones. No matter what amount of money you spend on
bra – whether it’s $20, $50, or $100 – consider that money saved is money
earned. Whatever money you would have spent on a frilly new bra can be pocketed
for another time or spent on something more important to you!
6. Strengthen Your Breasts
Essentially, bras prevent your chest from
having to fight gravity. Your mind might immediately think that without your
bra, then, your breasts would succumb to gravity and sag. However, quite the
opposite happens when your ditch your brazier.
When your chest HAS to battle gravity,
the chest muscles work harder and actually strengthen your breasts. This
doesn’t just make you stronger, but it actually increases your breast size.
That’s right, saying bye to your bra could gain you a whole cup size.
7. Encourage Healthy Breast Tissue
As a part of the 15-year study previously
mentioned, scientists have found that wearing a bra may be hindering your
ability to grow healthy breast tissue. Healthy breast tissue is important for
so many reasons; obviously, healthy tissue will decrease (but not totally
prevent) your chance for various breast diseases, such as breast cancer.
Breast tissue that’s healthy will also
support breasts more and help breast muscles strengthen – and, as we learned,
this leads to naturally larger, stronger, rounder, and perkier breasts.
8. Comfort
For many ladies, this could be the biggest
reason to nix your bra: comfort. Seriously, is there any greater feeling of
relief than taking off your bra after a long day? It is sweet, sweet
freedom. Especially if we wear lacy, itchy, or tight bras, the daily discomfort
can be enough to distract you all day long.
A quick fix? Taking a bra-cation, if you
will. All comfort, all the time.
9. Breathing Function Will Improve
This is a pretty easy one to figure out. When
something tight and restricting is wrapped around your chest all day for 365
days a year for however many years, your breathing slowly becomes more and more
restricted. Something like, say, a bra.
While we’re not saying bras will be the doom
of your respiratory system, your breathing will definitely be less restricted
and healthier without a decreasing your flow of oxygen.
What do you think? Do these health benefits
tempt you enough to consider ditching your bra?
I w@jasco...
31/01/2017
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